臆

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 肉 (“body”) + phonetic 意

Han character

臆 (radical 130 肉+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 月卜廿心 (BYTP), four-corner 7023₆)

1. chest, breast, bosom
2. thought

References

• KangXi: page 996, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29951
• Dae Jaweon: page 1447, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2118, character 3
• Unihan data for U+81C6

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Cantonese

Hanzi

臆 (Yale yik1)

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Japanese

Kanji

臆 (“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. mind; thought
2. repress one's mind
3. expect many things

Readings

• Go'on: おく (oku)
• Kan'on: よく (yoku)
• Kun: おく・する (臆する, okusuru), (rare) むね (mune), (rare) おもう (omou), (rare) おぼえる (oboeru)
• Nanori: ぞう (zō)

Compounds

臆出 臆度

臆断 臆病

臆面 臆見

臆説 臆測

References

JIS: 3231 Kuten: 1817 Shift JIS: 89AF EUC-JP: B2B1 Frequency: 1324 Nelson: 1780

New Nelson: 2001 Halpern: 765 Halpern Learners: 530 Heisig: 632 Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 4k13.5

1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

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Korean

Hanja

臆 (hangeul 억, revised eok, McCune-Reischauer ŏk, Yale ek)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

臆 (pinyin yì (yi4), Wade-Giles i⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

臆 (ức)